Posted on 05/30/2011 9:36:33 AM PDT by bkopto
Didn't he get the memo that the Ikhwan is "moderate" and "largely secular?" "Brotherhood sheikh to run for president," by Hany ElWaziry for Al Masry Al Youm, May 29 (thanks to Zulu):
Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Hazem Abu Ismail announced his intention to run in Egypt’s upcoming presidential elections.
He said that if elected he would implement Islamic sharia law and cancel the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
Ismail was the Brotherhood’s candidate in 2005 parliamentary elections for Dokki in Giza.
The group announced earlier that it would not take part in the presidential elections and confirmed that it would compete for only half the seats in Parliament. But Ismail is the second Brotherhood member to have announced his intention to run for president in defiance of the group's leadership. The other Brotherhood candidate is Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, a liberal-minded Islamist.
The devil is in the details, and the first question regarding Fotouh's "liberal-minded" credentials is: compared to what? Will non-Muslims have equal rights with Muslims? Will Muslims be able to change their religion publicly and officially, as well as privately?
Abu Ismail said Saturday during a speech in a Dokki mosque that he will sweep the elections. Since he is an ordinary man, he said, the masses will support him.
Abu Ismail said that his platform revolves around Islam, while "Mohamed ElBaradei, Amr Moussa, and Hamdeen Sabahi, the liberal candidates, will be unable to present a clear vision” for the country.
“If I could apply sharia in Egypt, all people, including non-Muslims, would applaud me four years later,” said Abu Ismail.
Only if you succeeded in obliterating free speech. Otherwise, don't bet the farm on it.
The sheikh said that no current presidential candidate represents the Egyptian people.
“We seek to apply Islamic law, but those who don’t want it prefer cabarets, alcohol, dancers and prostitution, as the implementation of Islamic law will prohibit women to appear naked in movies and on beaches,” Abu Ismail added.
Translation: All who oppose me are depraved perverts.
For his opinion on Brotherhood, he said, “They are chaste people and my opinion would not change even if they don’t support me.”
Concerning the peace treaty with Israel, he said, “The Camp David peace treaty is insulting to the Egyptian people, so it must be canceled, and I will do my best to convince people to cancel it.”
Iran V2.0 coming your way, ala Egypt.
Obama, Jarrett, and the rest of the Jew-haters in his administration are hard at work, increasing social and civilizational entropy in the Middle East, at home, and elsewhere around the world.
Looks like retargeting of a couple of our ICBMs is now in order.
And Obama is smiling.
Heckuva job Baracky.
Obama and liberals in general have praised the Arab spring, and expressed hope that the Arab world is on the way to parliamentary democracy.
We really have to wait and see how this Arab spring shakes out. I don’t think we know yet what will happen. If radical Muslim governments take control in Egypt and other Arab countries, it’s not necessarily such a great change.
“Every memory from Iran is a very happy memory,” Jarrett told me in an e-mail...”
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett
IRANIAN of the DAY!!
Given that Egypt has destroyed its tourist industry, won’t be able to send workers abroad, and has cancelled its gas sales to Israel, I wonder how they intend to feed themselves?
It’s a “religion of peace”, you know, made up of peace loving men and “women of cover”.
One of two things will happen: He will win and now we know what the Arab spring was REALLY all about or he will lose and we will know the Muslim Brotherhood is not supported by the general population
Either way it will bring clarity to what is happening in Egypt
The USA taxpayer ?
After all we are flush with cash / s
Obama is sending him campaign funds——compliments of the US taxpayer.
I do not believe he will win. The Egyptian people are not so stupid to vote for a radical such as this. The Egyptians may be muslim, but there are not radicalized as other countries are. The Egyptians see where a great nation such as Iran, is now by embracing radical Islam, and they do not want to go there. IMO.
Pretty much sounds like its time for Tel Aviv to kick some major Egyptian butt again. Its been nearly 40 years, and there is a whole new generation of Egyptians to teach why you don’t mess with Israel.
My understanding, through an American friend, who until recently had lived for many years in Egypt, is that corruption is totally rampant in Egypt. Whichever force is more effectively corrupt will probably win the vote, irrespective of however the voters cast their ballots. The judges and authorities that are and will be sitting in judgment of Mubarak are guaranteed to be playing by the same corrupt rules of government by which Hosni has been playing for more than the last thirty-five years.
HF
This is a joke, right?
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